Representatives from CERCLL will be at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) convention in Philadelphia this year. There are several ways to learn about our resources and projects there:
Exhibit Hall Show
Visit us in the exhibit hall at booth 519, Friday November 22 to Sunday November 24, 2024, where all sixteen of the Title VI-funded Language Resource Centers will have materials on hand to let you know what resources and professional development opportunities are available now, and what’s coming soon!
If you can’t make it to Philadelphia for ACTFL (and even if you can), you will always find details about the Language Resource Centers on the LRC website, with links to our resources and web presences.
Exhibitor Workshop 7: Free Standards-Based Language Teaching Resources from the LRCs
Friday, November 22, 10:30 – 11:15 pm
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibitor Workshop Room #7, Exhibit Halls CDE
Kate Mackay (CERCLL), Jialing Wang (CALPER at Penn State University), Karin Larson (CARLA at the University of Minnesota), and Alberta Gatti (CUNY Graduate Center) will be on hand with representatives from some of the other LRCs.
Come learn about free standards-based resources for teachers available from the national Language Resource Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education: no-cost teacher resource guides and manuals, online materials and assessments in specific languages, and more for teachers of all levels and languages. URLs for downloadable resources are provided.
Ungrading Our Language Classrooms
Friday, November 22, 3:30 – 4:15 pm
Roundtable Presentations, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Halls CDE
Nicole Coleman (Wayne State University) and Janice McGregor (University of Arizona)
This roundtable reports on experiences with ungrading (e.g. minimal and specifications grading), invites a discussion about challenges and benefits of ungrading, and provides specific examples of ungraded assignments and classes from language education contexts.
A Corpus-Based Advanced Chinese Textbook for Intercultural Communication
Saturday, November 23, 11:00 -11:45 am
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 121C
Jie Zhang (University of Oklahoma), Wenhao Diao (University of Arizona), Kexuan Wu (University of Oklahoma), and Yi Xu (University of Pittsburgh)
This session presents a Chinese language textbook CERCLL project that is based on a corpus of authentic and spontaneous conversations between American study abroad students and their Chinese roommates. It also features a range of cultural issues that advanced L2 learners actually encounter when they enter the cultural contact zone with Chinese speakers.